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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, “The Four-Eyed Maverick”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the cause of death of Alice Roosevelt following the death of her and Theodore’s daughter, Alice Lee Roosevelt?
(a) A brain aneurysm.
(b) Bright’s disease.
(c) Crohn’s disease.
(d) Cancer.

2. What did Theodore Roosevelt’s mother die of on the same day that his wife died?
(a) Bright’s disease.
(b) Typhoid fever.
(c) Lung cancer.
(d) A brain aneurysm.

3. Who beat Theodore Roosevelt for the position of Speaker of the New York State Assembly in 1884?
(a) Titus Sheard.
(b) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(c) James G. Blaine.
(d) George Edmunds.

4. Theodore Roosevelt built a ranch in the Dakota Territory named Elk Horn. This ranch was located 35 miles from what boomtown?
(a) Bismarck, North Dakota.
(b) Medora, North Dakota.
(c) Minot, North Dakota.
(d) Fargo, North Dakota.

5. Who was the Presidential nominee that was chosen at the 1884 Republican Convention?
(a) Grover Cleveland.
(b) George Edmunds.
(c) Titus Sheard.
(d) James G. Blaine.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whose brother did Theodore Roosevelt purchase the lands in the Dakota Territory that he planned to use as a cattle ranch?

2. While at the 1884 Republican Convention, Theodore Roosevelt learned that who planned to veto several of his bills, according to the author in Chapter 10, “The Delegate-at-Large”?

3. Where did Theodore Roosevelt and Alice Lee Roosevelt settle in New York after their brief stay at the Roosevelts’ estate on Long Island after their marriage?

4. What author is mentioned in the Prologue as having remarked negatively about President Theodore Roosevelt’s methodologies and called him “insane”?

5. How long after the death of his wife and mother did Theodore Roosevelt return to Albany?

(see the answer key)

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